{"product_id":"writers-by-the-river-9781476684062","title":"Writers by the River","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   The Highland Summer Writing Conference (HSC), held each summer along the banks of the ancient New River at Radford University''s Selu Conservancy, brings together and inspires writers as they participate in the communal art of creating and sharing.  Over the years, many prestigious Appalachian authors have taught workshops to like-minded students, many of whom became published authors in their own right. This book, a celebration of the HSC, is a collection of reflective essays, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction contributed by 41 authors and student-authors who have taken part in the conference over a span of 43 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tviii\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eGrace Toney Edwards\t1\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\t\u003cbr\u003eDonia S. Eley\t3\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Inspiration\u003cbr\u003eGrace Toney Edwards\t8\u003cbr\u003e In Memoriam: They Came, Left Gifts, and Now Are Gone 8\u003cbr\u003eParks Lanier, Jr.\t19\u003cbr\u003e Highland Summer Conference: The Beginning 19\u003cbr\u003eJeff Daniel Marion\t25\u003cbr\u003e The Chinese Poet Reconsiders Time 25 \u003cbr\u003e \"Late Autumn the Chinese Poet Invites His Old Friend the Brier Out to the River to Sit a Spell\" 29\u003cbr\u003eLoyal Jones\t30\u003cbr\u003e Words from a Legend of Appalachia 30 \u003cbr\u003e \"Tintagel\" 31\u003cbr\u003eMarilou Awiakta\t32\u003cbr\u003e Our Courage Is Our Memory 32 \u003cbr\u003e \"Dawn Birth\" 33 \u003cbr\u003e \"Out of Ashes Peace Will Rise\" 36 \u003cbr\u003e \"Parting Thoughts\" 38 \u003cbr\u003e \"I Offer You a Gift\" 43\u003cbr\u003eDavid Huddle\t44\u003cbr\u003e How and Why Radford University's Highland Summer Conference Was More Than Just a Teaching Gig for Me 44 \u003cbr\u003e \"Where Do You Come From?\" 47 \u003cbr\u003e \"What Can You Tell Me About Your Father?\" 48 \u003cbr\u003e \"What About Your Mother?\" 48 \u003cbr\u003e \"Art for Money\" 49 \u003cbr\u003e \"What Are You Up To?\" 49 \u003cbr\u003e \"Elrica\" 50 \u003cbr\u003e \"Some Kitchens\" 50 \u003cbr\u003e \"Inez\" 51\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Ella Lyon\t53\u003cbr\u003e Reflections: Community, Generosity and Magic 53 \u003cbr\u003e \"All to Pieces\" 55\u003cbr\u003eBill Brown\t56\u003cbr\u003e Gift … Beyond Measure 56 \u003cbr\u003e \"The Talk in Floyd County\" 57 \u003cbr\u003e \"Passenger\" 59 \u003cbr\u003e \"Learning to Be Quiet\" 60 \u003cbr\u003e \"Otter Dream for Geron\" 61\u003cbr\u003eRita Sims Quillen\t63\u003cbr\u003e Writing in the Highlands of Virginia 63 \u003cbr\u003e \"A Woman Born to Farming\" (After Wendell Berry's \"A Man Born to Farming\") 64\u003cbr\u003eRobert Morgan\t66\u003cbr\u003e Experience at Radford: Connecting with the Indigenous Roots 66 \u003cbr\u003e Lost Lead Mine of the Cherokees 68\u003cbr\u003eDiane Gilliam\t77\u003cbr\u003e How I Got to RU, and What I Found There 77 \u003cbr\u003e \"Said the Girl to the Boy\" 79\u003cbr\u003ePart II: More Inspiration\u003cbr\u003eRon Rash\t82\u003cbr\u003e Words from Ron Rash 82 \u003cbr\u003e Reflection on Highland Summer Conference 82 \u003cbr\u003e \"Canning\" 83\u003cbr\u003eRicky Cox\t84\u003cbr\u003e My First Highland Summer Conference 84 \u003cbr\u003e Where Are You Now, Marlos Perkos? 85\u003cbr\u003eRuth B. Derrick\t91\u003cbr\u003e Fun, Terror and Gratification 91 \u003cbr\u003e \"The Sweater\" 94 \u003cbr\u003e \"Taken\" 95 \u003cbr\u003e \"Body Language—1918 Family Portrait\" 95 \u003cbr\u003e \"Life Cycle\" Four Poems in One 96\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Brosi\t97\u003cbr\u003e Appalachian Mountain Books and HSC 97\u003cbr\u003ePamela Duncan\t101\u003cbr\u003e In the Blue Ridge of Virginia 101 \u003cbr\u003e Real Life 102\u003cbr\u003eGrace Toney Edwards\t105\u003cbr\u003e Yesterday's Voices, Today's Visions: The Power of a Teacher's Influence 105\u003cbr\u003eRobert Gipe\t110\u003cbr\u003e Words from Robert Gipe 110 \u003cbr\u003e The Hide-Behinds 110\u003cbr\u003eRichard Hague\t114\u003cbr\u003e Jesus of the Hills 114 \u003cbr\u003e My Week 118\u003cbr\u003eHeidi Hartwiger\t119\u003cbr\u003e There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Garlic 119 \u003cbr\u003e An Incredible WOW Factor Woman 123\u003cbr\u003eJeff Mann\t129\u003cbr\u003e HSC Memory 129 \u003cbr\u003e \"Country Kitchen—Christiansburg, Virginia\" 131 \u003cbr\u003e \"Gay Redneck, With Baby Stroller\" 132 \u003cbr\u003e \"Redneck Food\" 133\u003cbr\u003eKaren Salyer McElmurray\t134\u003cbr\u003e Conferencing 134\u003cbr\u003eLinda Parsons\t139\u003cbr\u003e A Grateful Confluence 139 \u003cbr\u003e \"Divine Rods\" 140\u003cbr\u003eDana Wildsmith\t142\u003cbr\u003e Teaching the Teachers 142 \u003cbr\u003e \"One Light\" 144 \u003cbr\u003e \"Emergency Room\" 145 \u003cbr\u003e \"Pitched Past Grief\" 145 \u003cbr\u003e \"Elegy\" 145\u003cbr\u003eFrank X Walker\t147\u003cbr\u003e Contributions from Frank X Walker, a Kentucky Poet Laureate 147 \u003cbr\u003e \"Sweat Equity\" 147 \u003cbr\u003e \"Ritual\" 148 \"Rock Paper Scissors\" 149 \u003cbr\u003e \"Hoofers\" 149 \u003cbr\u003e \"Wheeze\" 150 \u003cbr\u003e \"Eclipse\" 151\u003cbr\u003eRick Van Noy\t152\u003cbr\u003e Reading the River 152\u003cbr\u003eDonald Secreast\t156\u003cbr\u003e The Highland Summer Conference Could Have Added Ten Years to My Writing Life 156\u003cbr\u003ePart III: The Inspired\u003cbr\u003eB. Chelsea Adams\t164\u003cbr\u003e The Truth We Share 164 \u003cbr\u003e \"The Part Gone\" 166 \u003cbr\u003e \"The Nineteenth Hole\" 167\u003cbr\u003eCharles A. Swanson\t169\u003cbr\u003e You Made Me One of Your Own 169 \u003cbr\u003e \"Fraulein\" 173 \u003cbr\u003e \"Old Work Shirt: Let Me Praise the Pansies\" 173 \u003cbr\u003e \"Old Work Shirt, the Hand-Stitched Swans Most Gone\" 174 \u003cbr\u003e \"Forward: Row-ing for O-hi-O\" 174 \u003cbr\u003e \"Homeplace\" 175\u003cbr\u003eDonia S. Eley\t178\u003cbr\u003e From Long Dusty Roads and Tobacco Rows to a Selfie with Gurney 178 \u003cbr\u003e \"I Am From\" 179 \u003cbr\u003e \"The Captain\" 180 \u003cbr\u003e \"Sputnik\" 181 \u003cbr\u003e \"Evening Light\" 182\u003cbr\u003eKevin Stewart\t183\u003cbr\u003e From a Montana Vantage Point 183 \u003cbr\u003e Silenced 184\u003cbr\u003eBecky Dellinger Hancock\t192\u003cbr\u003e APPALKIDS at HSC 192\u003cbr\u003eRick Mulkey\t195\u003cbr\u003e Homecoming 195 \u003cbr\u003e \"Concerning Whisky\" 197 \u003cbr\u003e \"Cured\" 198 \u003cbr\u003e \"An Explanation\" 199\u003cbr\u003eMatt Prater\t201\u003cbr\u003e Looking Back 201 \u003cbr\u003e \"Trieste\" 202\u003cbr\u003eSam L. Linkous\t204\u003cbr\u003e Remembering Jim Wayne Miller—and More 204 \u003cbr\u003e \"Catching Supper\" 205 \u003cbr\u003e \"Sacred Ground\" 205 \u003cbr\u003e Reflections 206\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth McCommon\t216\u003cbr\u003e You Asked, and I Came 216 \u003cbr\u003e Up On Locust Hill 217\u003cbr\u003eTeresa Stutso Jewell\t219\u003cbr\u003e From Hairdresser to Writer 219 \u003cbr\u003e \"The Plea of Brother Mountain\" 222\u003cbr\u003eLuther Kirk\t223\u003cbr\u003e Impacts 223 \u003cbr\u003e Opal Jean 224 \u003cbr\u003e \"Ain't Never Went to the Ocean\" 232 \u003cbr\u003e \"Witching Hour\" 232 \u003cbr\u003e \"She Left\" 233 \u003cbr\u003e \"Child of Appalachia\" 233 \u003cbr\u003e \"My Soul\" 233 \u003cbr\u003e \"Went to the Ocean\" 234\u003cbr\u003eTim Thornton\t235\u003cbr\u003e For Those Two Weeks in That One Summer … I Was a Writer 235 \u003cbr\u003e \"Mom and Dad, 1958\" 237\u003cbr\u003eBonnie Roberts Erickson\t238\u003cbr\u003e A Journey into the Heart 238\u003cbr\u003eJim Minick\t242\u003cbr\u003e Writing Community: Celebrating the Highland Summer Conference's 40th Anniversary and More 242 \u003cbr\u003e \"When You Realize the Future\" 244\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\t\u003cbr\u003eTheresa L. Burriss\t245\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: List of HSC Leaders, Readers and Performers\t247\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\t251\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t258","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040487899479,"sku":"9781476684062","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476684062.jpg?v=1750946905","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/writers-by-the-river-9781476684062","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}